Sam Blenkharn

Gardener in West Wales. Him/he.

[Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @KatieKlocksin]

Apparently the entire world is just crossing their fingers going “it prob won’t affect me though, I’m strong” meanwhile whole countries are having so many people taking sick leave that they have to make new policies about it. Ignoring a pandemic is a bad fucking strategy.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@CounsellingSam I'm very attached to having a working body. Also I read information about covid on twitter 🤓

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Almost zero coverage on social media about how Trump lost his final appeal and must pay the woman he raped for lying about raping her.

Odd.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport

Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin

The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s

The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds

It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo

UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone.

UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism”

The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed

The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda.

Who’s actually in charge in London?

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales.

This is now the law.

🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people...
1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

https://t.co/L8n9vroNW5

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@jemmm85517813 @herdyshepherd1 Feels unlikely.People are wedded to eating animal products. It feels like some awful stuff can get pushed through by nasty governments with little protest (see civil liberties erosion currently), but I think any ban/restrictions on animal products would incur huge resistance.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@NeleHelena You're not too sensitive. I've seen this first-hand, and heard it second-hand, for years and years in the UK with NHS staff. Unbelievable absence of compassion, sensitivity, tact, empathy. I've seen so, so much of it. It's staggering.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@manruipa Nice one, good thread

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Every new heat record exposes the same divide: workers and the planet vs billionaires.

People are dying in the heat right now. Yet we’re told there’s always billions for endless war and militarisation, but never a serious plan for the climate crisis.

The richest keep profiting from fossil fuels while insulating themselves in air-conditioned bunkers. Everyone else is left to work through dangerous temperatures, live in overheated homes, and rely on public services pushed to breaking point.

Climate breakdown isn’t just an environmental crisis, it’s a class one.

We need rapid decarbonisation, serious investment in adaptation, and workers’ rights that include a legal maximum workplace temperature.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@useless_priest And protect well people from viral infections that might make them ill people, potentially permanently! It's mad we're still having to call for this, six years into a grievous pandemic 🤦🏻

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@Barclays I've just switched my current account away from you, owing to you supporting the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, through providing investment and loans to companies arming Israel, and being a primary dealer for Israeli bonds. I urge others to boycott Barclays.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@Headteacherchat Open the classroom windows. Put HEPA filters in the classrooms, make sure they're switched on, and that the filters are cleaned regularly (get the cleaners to hoover the filter), and changed as per manufacturer recommendations. Transmission of colds and covid in school will fall

[Ramzy Alwakeel @journoramzy]

Sending reporters to do heatwave stories to camera at the beach is a such a lazy bit of consent manufacturing. 35C does not equal the beach. Do the report on a building site where people are on the verge of passing out. Do it from a hospital ward.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@afneil Shabby ad hominem attack instead of engaging with the substance: Keir Starmer supported Israel to commit genocide.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@suchnerve Upsetting scenario 😬

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

Well I went to the dentist this morning and it cost me £125, because we don't tax the rich.

Healthcare should be free.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@_hxneyglow I hope things can improve for you

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

It's astounding and tragic how many people fail at this basic step, instead choosing projection and baseless judgement, over listening and hearing.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

@_hxneyglow Friends and families of chronically ill people would do well to absorb this message. Stress is bad for everyone, but for the chronically ill and/or traumatised, it can be the difference between coping and catastrophe.

[Sam Blenkharn @sam_blenkharn]

They would also do well therefore to recognise which of their own actions causes stress to their ill loved one, and how they can avoid doing that. Number one strategy for this: Listen to your ill loved one, and believe them.